Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A NUMBER of citizens of Lancaster met at the house of Wil- liam Cooper on Wednesday evening, February 6th, 1822. Dr. Samuel Fahnestock was appointed chairman, and Nathaniel Lightner secretary. The

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

DEDICATION OF THE MEMORIAL TO HENRY WILLIAM STIEGEL By PROFESSOR HORACE R. BARNES Sunday afternoon, June 10th, 1934, The Lancaster County Historical So- ciety unveiled the twenty-second inarker which it has had the privilege of presenting to our county. At that time, a Memorial to Henry William

Major. Represented Lancaster in the Congress of the United States, 1801-03. Died at Columbia, Oct. 24, 1822. (Trowbridge). CHAMBERS, STEPHEN Capt. of a company in the 12th Penna. Reg. Killed in a duel at Lancaster, May 26, 1789. Further references found in Mr. Worrier's paper, Vol. 34, No. 7, 1930, of

names of the past which are fast disappearing from the community -Wallace, Yundt, Kinzer and Rutt. A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION In recent years, descendants of German settlers of Lancaster count-.{, Pa., and of Rowan and other counties, of North Carolina, have exchanged notes containing the statement

MUSTER ROLLS OF SOLDIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY IN THE WAR OF 1812 By MRS. J. V. R. HUNTER AND MRS. MARY OWEN STEINMETZ Not long ago, an old record book was found in the office of the prothon- otary in the court house of Reading, Berks county, Pa., bearing the following title: "Muster Roll of the

--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1930 Description: [31]-37 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.34 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

coffee house on Wednesday, January 1st, 1817. Whether or not the meeting was held, is not known, as no subsequent references to it appeared in local papers. Nearly two years later, another effort was made to form a similar society. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, September 11th, 1818, con- tained the